The season has begun. First impressions of what I've seen so far(spoilers only marked if they spoil anything that you don't see in the episode description or the first couple minutes of the first episode):

I suspect that Bloodivores is shaping up to be Vampire Deadman Wonderland.

Izetta, the Last Witch seems interesting. Story of an alternate universe WW2(with no mention of Japan, suspiciously) where the princess of a small kingdom tries to save it from invasion, fails, but runs into an old friend who just happens to be a witch.

Magical Girl Raising Project seems like its going to be something akin to a cross between Madoka and Battle Royale.

The Ancient Magus' Bride feels like a cross between equal parts heartwarming, Flying Witch kinda story and Effed Up Backstory.

Kaiju Girls is silly. But short. While nothing can replace Bananya in our hearts, we shall surely find it replaces the time I would have spent watching more Bananya if it hadn't ended.

So, "Keijo!!!!!!" is an interesting ecchi anime that goes and screws it up by being too much of a sports anime. Luckily, "My Wife is the Student Council President" is back for another season, so pointlessly naughty anime is reasonably well represented.

I keep seeing anime I want to watch but never get around to watching them. 90% of them end up being boring as **** or just really bad quality, or both. Usually I end up just re-watching anime I like. I have a list made of anime I want to watch but haven't seen yet:

I keep seeing anime I want to watch but never get around to watching them. 90% of them end up being boring as **** or just really bad quality, or both. Usually I end up just re-watching anime I like. I have a list made of anime I want to watch but haven't seen yet:

Hunter x Hunter

Mob Psycho 100

Move these two to the top of your list, with Mob Psycho going first because it has the fewer amount of episodes.

Kuwoobie, you're likely finding 90% of anime fairly boring because 90% are. Like any medium, there's a fair amount of junk. If you spent more time curating shows I think you'll end up having an increased likelihood of enjoying each series. This can be as simple as looking up the series on myanimelist.net to see both the rating and similar series. IF you like similar series and it has a good rating, then it's likely worth you time to try.

There's quite a bit on your list I haven't seen, but I'll toss another vote in for Hunter x Hunter. The skeleton is that of a battle shounen, but the author Togashi is quite imaginative, subversive, and fairly focused on world building. The anime will be quite long, and so will be quite a bit of a time investment. An alternative would be to read the manga, as the anime follows it exactly and manga can be consumed at a faster pace than anime.

A recent series I enjoyed was Ping Pong: The animation. It's directed by Masaaki, and so if you're familiar with his other works (Tatami Galaxy, Kaiba, Kemonozume) you have an idea of what to expect.

space-patrol-luluco : Short, but well done. I personally dislike the short format, but Trigger did a good job. KonoSuba : Enjoyable character driven show. Highly deranged. Death Note (10 episodes in so far need to finish) :High tier drama Psycho Mob 100 : By OPM creator, very reminiscent; basically a Shonen with weird sense of humor. Re: Zero: Interesting, but goes kinda ham at the end.

Is this where we all make lists of the best anime and judge one another based off what we've picked? That sounds like a lot of fun to me.

Mahou Madoka Shin Sekai Yori

Evangelion Fate:Zero Kino's Journey Utena

Psycho Pass S1 Attack on Titan Cowboy Bebop

Uhh... Monogatari I guess.

Special mention goes to flawed masterpiece Akuma no Riddle and the anime of Chang Ge Xing which will definitely be great whenever or if ever it's made. Also, most anime really does suck, it's hard to think of ten genuinely great ones. This season just looks garbage.

If I were to start listing favorite all-time anime, I'd probably have Kill la Kill on top. I really enjoyed it-- but I feel it would not have been nearly as good if I had watched it all at once as it stands today. There was something about watching one episode every week as they came out and anticipating the next one that made it really exciting somehow. I feel the same way about Walking Dead currently. I know a lot of people who are just now catching up and watch all the episodes back to back and I kind of feel bad for them for having to experience it all that way.

As far as a list of anime I like, it pretty much matches Timelordwho's more or less. I'd add Watamote to it obviously, seeing how I made a whole long emotional thread about it once. I know there are quite a few others I liked but can't even think of them due to being near dead with tiredness.

A quick reference. I'd probably make a few adjustments now and I haven't updated it as much as I should.

I enjoy recommending people series, even when they don't ask.

Kavekkk wrote:

Shin Sekai Yori - Juuni Kokuki also does a very good job at world building. The biggest crime is that it's part of an ongoing book series and so there is plenty more story.

Kino's Journey - Mushishi. More disconnected stories exploring human nature and our relationship to the world. Possibly gentler and slower paced. For a more heated take look into Casshern Sins.

Utena - Princess Tutu. A fair amount of allegory, and also mimics some of the repetitive scenes. The music is far from original, but also still superb. Princess Tutu is remarkable for its ability to be enjoyed by either taking it too seriously or not at all.

Attack on Titan - Code: Geass. Action and intrigued nonstop.

Monogatari - Katanagatari is by the same author. I cannot deny that Nisio is a skilled technical writer. His word play is marvelous, though often lost in translation. He has more genre awareness than any Japanese writer I know. However, Monogatari was made intolerable for me by those overwhelming focus on fanservice. Katanagatari fixes this.

Timelordwho wrote:

Gurren Lagann - Somewhat orthogonal, but you might try Angel Beats!. Angel Beats cares far, far less about manliness or exponentiation, but both series have very likely casts of perhaps somewhat deliberately shallow characters. Both are strong focused on feeling rather than pure plot. Whereas Gurren Lagann is "GWAR" Angel Beats is more "Heck D'aww!"

If I could force anyone to try one series t would be Mononoke (no not princess, and watch the last 3 episodes of Ayakashi: Classic Horror first).

Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki seems to not have gotten too much attention from mainstream western anime fans, even though it's pretty top notch.

Well, since someone suggested "Favorite Anime", for me it'd either have to be Twelve Kingdoms or Maria-sama Ga Miteru based on sheer number of times I've watched them, though Overlord is quickly catching up(and I'm preordering the light novels as they come out in the US). That last one might be because I was once more or less in a place where he is in RL at the beginning of the show so it kinda resonates with me. Still really miss my guildmates.

That out of the way, I haven't much been keeping up with anything this season. Still liking Izetta. Love Ancient Magus Bride, but hate its OVA-tastic release schedule. Everything else is short episode shows. Instead, I've marathoned Lucifer on Hulu and iZombie on Netflix(12 ep in). And watched Overlord again.

I guess my favorites are still Ranma and Slayers. I'm sure if I took a few more seconds to really think about it my answer would be different, but besides One Piece they're the only two shows I can really see myself rewatching.

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Hmm. Isn't 12 Kingdoms the one with the annoying girl who cries all the time? I'm pretty sure when I was in college I worked as a proofreader and distributor for a few fansub groups. One that was doing 12 Kingdoms.

All I really remember is the girl being annoying and crying in everyone episode. And I don't recall it being very popular at the time of release (relatively speaking).

She's like that for the first few episodes but gets over it as time goes on.

Really though, that sort of reaction is pretty realistic. Pretend you're an average moody high school girl. You have a normal, boring life, and then one day a guy show up and proclaims you the queen of fantasy land. Then monsters try to kill you, a magical battle happens, and you get pulled into a fantasy world with no help or explanation. Would you really act like a cliche Hero in those circumstances? No. You'd probably freak the fuck out and cry and scream and be confused as hell (see also, Tidus.) It may be a little annoying, but it also made Youko a much more believable character.

She's like that for the first few episodes but gets over it as time goes on.

Really though, that sort of reaction is pretty realistic. Pretend you're an average moody high school girl. You have a normal, boring life, and then one day a guy show up and proclaims you the queen of fantasy land. Then monsters try to kill you, a magical battle happens, and you get pulled into a fantasy world with no help or explanation. Would you really act like a cliche Hero in those circumstances? No. You'd probably freak the fuck out and cry and scream and be confused as hell (see also, Tidus.) It may be a little annoying, but it also made Youko a much more believable character.

It takes a while. She goes crazy. There's character growth. All in all, it's kinda cool.

Edit: I loved ScraPrin. Love how the one lady was a badass wizard because she was macroing her spells.